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Vacancy: Executive Committee members

We have three positions available to join our Executive Committee, which is open to applications from RCUK Full and Honorary Members.

We are looking for applications from Full and Honorary RCUK Members who have made a significant contribution to resuscitation and who are passionate about helping us further the organisation’s aims and objectives.  

It’s an exciting time to join RCUK’s Executive Committee as you would play a key role in helping us ensure that everyone across the UK has access to appropriate CPR.

We’ll achieve this by ensuring that:

  • comprehensive training is delivered across clinical, care and public settings, based on research and evidence base
  • cardiac arrest survival matches world leading comparators
  • everyone affected by cardiac arrest receives appropriate, personalised support
  • we tackle inequalities in resuscitation.

The Executive Committee is an integral part of the RCUK team, and its members help ensure that everything we do is underpinned by expertise. The Executive Committee advises the Board of Trustees using their experience and expertise from a wide range of settings including (but not limited to) primary care, out-of-hospital emergency care, emergency and acute hospital medicine, intensive care medicine, anaesthesia, cardiology, the community response following out of hospital cardiac arrest and end-of-life care.  

Membership of the Executive Committee is a voluntary role within Resuscitation Council UK. The elected members will have extensive expertise and vision in resuscitation and/or specialist expertise to assist RCUK to further its aims and objectives.   

No person shall serve continuously in the same role on the Executive Committee for longer than nine years, unless the Executive Committee determines that exceptional circumstances apply that justify longer service. 

The Executive Committee meets a minimum of twice a year. Additional meetings may be convened as required. It is expected that members will attend all Executive meetings, either in person or virtually. Dates for these meetings are circulated as far in advance as possible.  

The Executive Committee shall comprise in the region of 30 people, 12 of who are elected. Elections are normally held each year unless there are no vacant seats and a call for applications is extended to all full members. If an election process is needed, an external provider is contracted to run the process.   

You need a valid Full Membership or Honorary Membership of RCUK to apply for these roles.

To apply, please visit the election portal.

Because it is important to us that our Executive Committee reflects the diverse health and social care community and wider society, we’re also asking applicants to complete a diversity and inclusion monitoring form. The information will not be used during the application and election process, but the information you provide will help us understand if we are reaching a diverse group of candidates.  

The deadline for applications is noon on Wednesday 4 November 2026.

Should we receive more applications than vacant seats we will run an election process through the Electoral reform service for ratification at the Annual General Meeting in January.  

For more information about the positions, please contact Adam Benson-Clarke (Director of Clinical and Service Development) at adam.benson-clarke@resus.org.uk or by phone 0207 391 0711 by Monday 2 November 2026.